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	California sea slug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The California sea slug (Aplysia californica), also called the California sea hare, is a species of sea hare which belongs to the class Gastropoda in the phylum Mollusca.
		It is a very large sea hare, capable of growing to a recorded length of 75 cm (30 inches) though most are half that size.
		Like all sea hares, the California sea hare is hermaphroditic, acting as male and female simultaneously, even during mating.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/California_sea_slug (322 words)

	California
		The European-American population of California grew from 15,000 in 1848 to 380,000 by 1860 (Eargle 1986).
		The California Channel Islands are a group of eight islands lying from 19 to 97 kilometers off the southern California coast, in the nearshore section of the Pacific Ocean known as the southern California bight.
		California's native land snail fauna is large and diverse, reflecting the geological and ecological diversity of the state.
	biology.usgs.gov /s+t/SNT/noframe/ca162.htm (15568 words)

	Slug
		Slug is a common name for several terrestrial pulmonate and numerous marine gilled species of gastropod MOLLUSCS conspicuous by the lack of an exposed shell.
		The sea slug (Melibe leonina), a predacious, semipelagic opisthobranch gastropod, inhabits open, quiet channels, eelgrass beds and kelp forests from BC to California.
		This sea slug can attain 10 cm in length and resembles a diaphanous, truncated soupspoon, with several inflated, ovoid leaves on its handle.
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	sea snail - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Sea Hare, common name for any of a group of marine snails with greatly reduced shells.
		The sea hare somewhat resembles a nudibranch (sea slug)...
		- sea organism with spiral shell: a small marine organism with a spiral shell resembling that of a snail, e.g.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /sea+snail.html (126 words)

	sea spider or Pycnogonids
		Besides living underwater, sea spiders differ from their land cousins in other ways-- they don't spin webs, and may have from four to six pairs of long segmented legs, versus four pair for land spiders.
		Deep-sea researcher Dr. Paul H. Yancey notes large sea spiders are known to "stride over the abyssal mud with their long legs, using a proboscis to suck tissues from sessile prey..." and has photos of two such specimens on his deep sea pages web site.
		Like their land-lubber cousins, sea spiders are carnivorous, some feeding on other invertebrates by sucking out the juices, while others tear their prey apart and pass it into a proboscis for feeding.
	www.divegallery.com /sea_spider.htm (372 words)

	Zalophus californianus, California Sea Lion at MarineBio.org
		Sea lions are large, ranging from around 150 kg to over 1,500 kg, and males tend to be much larger than females (called sexual dimorphism).
		Sea lions are known to battle such diseases as pneumonia, caused by a parasitic lungworm, and a bacterial infection called leptospirosis, which affects their livers and kidneys.
		California sea lions are very social animals, and groups often rest closely packed together at favored haul-out sites on land, or float together on the ocean's surface in "rafts." They are sometimes seen porpoising too, or jumping out of the water, presumably to speed up their swimming.
	www.marinebio.com /species.asp?id=50 (1020 words)

	Sea slug research
		The research focuses on Aplysia california, a marine animal that grows to approximately eight inches in length and one pound in weight and has a hearty appetite for seaweed.
		He not only developed the recipe for slug pasta, but also invented a special tank that allows a living slug to eat, while the MRI machine makes movies, showing the researchers how the slug's muscles work as it gorges itself.
		Drushel and Sutton's detailed models of the slug's feeding apparatus, which have been created as part of the NSF grant, have the potential to serve as prototypes for the working designs of flexible grasping devices for such robots.
	www.cwru.edu /pubaff/univcomm/chiel.htm (757 words)

	Megabenthic Invertebrate Assemblages of the Mainland Shelf of Southern California in 1994 \| 1997-98 Annual Reports
		Trawl samples were collected at 114 randomly selected stations from Point Conception, California, to the United States-Mexico international border at depths of 9 to 215 m (rounded to 10 to 200 m for the purposes of this report) (Figure 1).
		California sand star, occurring at 83% of the stations, was the only species in this group that was found at more than 50% of the stations (Table 2).
		California sand star, ridgeback rock shrimp, and brokenspine brittlestar were found in more than 75% of the stations, with California sand star occurring at 91% of the stations.
	www.sccwrp.org /pubs/annrpt/97/ar11.htm (5019 words)

	Recurrent Groups of Megabenthic Invertebrates on the Mainland Shelf of Southern California in 1994 \| 1996 Annual Reports
		California market squid (Loligo opalescens), Pacific spiny brittlestar (Ophiothrix spiculata), and brokenspine brittlestar (Ophiura luetkeni) were associates of this group (Figure 2).
		This group occurred in 11 stations (10% of the total) on the outer shelf at depths of 150 to 208 m (Figure 3) throughout the SCB from the Santa Barbara Channel to Oceanside (Figure 4F).
		Group 7 was found at three stations (3% of the total) on the upper slope at depths of 203 to 208 m (Figure 3) in the Santa Barbara Channel (the northern region) and Redondo Canyon (the central region) (Figure 4G).
	www.sccwrp.org /pubs/annrpt/96/ar-14.htm (2850 words)

	United States Marine Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marines are credited with the development of helicopter insertion doctrine, and were the earliest in the American military to widely adopt maneuver warfare principles, which emphasize low-level initiative and flexible execution.
		It was adopted in 1883, before which, the traditional mottos were "Fortitudine" (With Fortitude); By Sea and by Land, a translation of the Royal Marines' Per Mare, Per Terram; and To the Shores of Tripoli.
		Medium squadrons fly the CH-46 Sea Knight transport helicopter, and are converting to the V-22 Osprey, a tiltrotor aircraft with superior range and speed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps (9278 words)

	California Diving News: CA Marine Life - Sponge & Slug (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This is often the case in the underwater world of sea slugs or nudibranchs.
		Yet, there is a bunch of beautiful bright and bold colored sea slugs that are not out to advertise their presence.
		Thus, this red sea slug's color is not considered to be protective coloration.
	www.saintbrendan.com /cdnsept99/velde9.html (743 words)

	James in Taiwan » Blog Archive » Scientists will study sea-slug brains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This is an old article, but apparently Florida scientists received 11 million USD to study California sea slug brains.
		The California sea slugs they will be studying are called Aplysia californica and they can reach between 6-7 pounds (2.72 - 3.17 kilos) each.
		The thing that makes these sea slugs unique is the fact that these sea slugs have the largest known brain cells - 1/25th of an inch or 1 millimeter.
	www.humandesigned.com /james/index.php?p=81 (203 words)

	ScienceDaily: Worms, Slugs Inspire Robotic Devices
		Drawing on an understanding of how slugs, leeches and earthworms traverse their environments and grasp objects, a team of Case Western Reserve University biologists and engineers has developed two flexible robotic devices that could make invasive medical procedures such as colonoscopies safer for patients and easier for doctors to administer.
		For nearly two decades and with support from the National Science Foundation, Chiel has studied the detailed movements of soft-tissue animals like the California sea slug, chronicling their behavior on film and with MRI imaging..
		Slug -- Slugs are gastropods without shells or with very small shells (which are often internal), in contrast with snails from which they share a common ancestor, and have a prominent...
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2005/02/050223142703.htm (1917 words)

	Emerald Sea Dive Club Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		White plumose sea anemones were attached on top of the tires and red short scale shrimp in the tires with a green sea urchin and two large Oregon tritons on another tire.
		There was one California sea cucumber that I grabbed and put a sunflower star on top of it to see how the California sea cucumber would respond.
		I encountered a sea butterfly or winged sea slug on the east side of Maury Island under the Tramp Harbor fishing pier.
	www.emeraldseadiveclub.org /newsletters/apr04/apr04.htm (2843 words)

	Sea Slug Explanation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The accompanying data file is from a pilot study on the ability of sea slug larvae to detect this kind of seaweed at different tide heights.
		Instead of randomly swimming until they find this seaweed (as was previously believed), these larvae actually "smell" the seaweed when they are passing over it in the water.
		Fifteen slug larvae were then injected into each of the replicates, and the percentage of larvae that metamorphosed was recorded.
	www.stat.ucla.edu /projects/datasets/seaslug-explanation.html (440 words)

	AMERICAN MONSTERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		His hypothesis ignited an instant debate when it was first revealed upon the publication of his book in 1968: "The Great Orm of Loch Ness." In that text, Holiday claimed that the famed Nessie was a gigantic version of the long extinct, carnivorous invertebrate known as Tullimonstrum gregarium.
		According to Holiday, this creature - which is a distant relative of both the octopus and the common garden slug - had grown to immense proportions, and was probably responsible not only for the sightings in Loch Ness, but also for the dragons which had been seen throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.
		The events which followed (which are an obscure convolution of alien technology and old world mysticism,) apparently took its toll on Holiday's health and apparently led to his untimely demise at the age of 59.
	www.americanmonsters.com /pioneers.html (5238 words)

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		So, you're taking a vacation in Southern California, and it's nice and warm out, so you're walking around barefoot in the grass, when you feel something squish under your toes.
		Nope, it's not the resort's resident dog; you've just accidentally discovered one of the world's most underutilized and amazing animals -- The humble land snail.
		But as luck would have it, researchers are working hard to put snails, slugs, and other spineless slimeballs into the spotlight.
	www.idfuel.com /index.php?p=401&more=1 (76 words)

	Generic Avandia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Sedate sea gooseberry compost the junior-grade listing with last mentioned otology.
		Butyric social worker whip the decurved potato blight with disobliging hauberk.
		sea scout with fractional senile generic avandia dementia.
	controlling-diabetes.musicminus1.com (2183 words)

	the red sea
		Forgive me for the crappy scan and the fact that the ink is far blurrier on the left than it is on the right.
		Also, the University of California at Berkely has an extensive bio/paleo website over the all life on Earth that's got tons of yummy info.
		It'd hang around the reefs and such to snatch up bones of mammals that were sad enough to be pulled into the sea.
	redseascrolls.livejournal.com (694 words)

	Nudibranch of the Week is Tridachia diomedea
		The original type specimens of Tridachia diomedea were dredged from 10 fathoms between Punta Gorda and the southwest corner of Isla Cerralvo (24 11' N; 109 55' W) on 30 April 1888.
		This species is known to occur throughout the Gulf of California to Panama; it has not been reported from the Pacific coast of the Baja California peninsula.
		MacFarland, F.M. Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Gulf of California in 1921.
	slugsite.us /bow/nudwk163.htm (648 words)

	Baja California and the Sea of Cortez 28th March – 8th April 2003
		The Mexican Dancer (a sea slug) was very colourful, the green body colour being due to the presence of symbiotic chloroplasts in its tissues.
		California and Blue-grey Gnatcatchers flitted from bush to bush, while Ladder-backed Woodpeckers and Gila Woodpeckers perched on top of the huge Cardon cacti.
		The sea bird list today did not disappoint and included some of the colder water species that we had seen at the beginning of the trip.
	home.btconnect.com /wildwings/baja2003tr.html (5487 words)

	California Dive Boats : The Official Page
		California Scuba Diving Marine Weather and Ocean Conditions
		Sharks and Rays: bat ray, round sting ray, shovel nose guitar fish, California thornback, Pacific electric or torpedo ray, angel shark, leopard shark, blue shark, swell shark, horn shark, angel shark, soupfin shark, dogfish, smoothhound shark, great white shark.
		Sea Mammals - Pinnipeds: harbor seal, sea lion, dolphin, common dolphin, gray whale, blue whale, humpback whale, killer whale, pilot whale, elephant seal, Dall's porpise, beaked whale.
	californiadiveboats.com (260 words)

	The Sea Slug Forum - Philine in California
		Michelle and I are going over the material to look at the material she collected to see what is going on.
		Please use the Sea Slug Forum to keep us all informed of any discoveries.
		If you have a photo of the shell and gizzard plates of the third species (Philine auriformis), which I could post on the site, or could send me a specimen to dissect and photograph it would be a useful comparison...
	www.seaslugforum.net /display.cfm?id=186 (359 words)

	Nudibranch of the Week is Babakina festiva
		These pictures (some of which were published in my 1993 article in the Annual Report of the Western Society of Malacologists) are attached here.
		Hirano, in the laboratory of the Mukaishima Marine Biological Station, Seto Inland Sea, Japan; 20 April 1989.
		The species is known from southern California to Nayarit, Mexico.
	slugsite.us /bow/nudwk302.htm (1077 words)

	Production First Software Encyclopedia of Typography and Electronic Communication : S
		slug A line or a portion of a line of type, cast in a single piece, as from a Linotype machine.
		The slug may have different typefaces and sizes intermixed in that line.
		The polymer hardens, and the process is repeated with a slightly different pattern, and so forth, until a 3-dimensional image is built up, layer by layer.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/profirst/s.htm (7225 words)

	Volcom Sea Slug Championships Zuma contest results
		On Saturday January 11th at Zuma Beach the Volcom Sea Slug huddled up for the final double rated event.
		The surf was a fun glassy 3-4 feet in the morning and became bumpy close-outs in the mid day and returned to glassy waves for the finals.
		The deal was sealed with a solid frontside air that was the cleanest of the day and scored an 8.
	www.surfersvillage.com /news.asp?Id_news=6614 (388 words)

	CD Baby: BANANA SLUG STRING BAND: Slugs at Sea
		Sail with the slugs as they sing about ocean habitats.
		The Banana Slug String Band (BSSB) is a group of four musicians that have been entertaining and educating communities nation-wide for more than 20 years.
		Focusing on family and primary school-aged audiences of all cultural backgrounds, The BSSB performances and school workshops combine their original compositions with puppets, theater, and audience participation to create a lively learning environment within their shows.
	cdbaby.com /cd/bssb (170 words)

	The Sea Slug Forum - Philine in California
		I have been studying Philine in Morro Bay, California, and am now in need of some assistance with taxonomy.
		I will keep you posted of what we are come up with.
		Behrens, M., 1998 (Aug 4) Philine in California.
	www.seaslugforum.net /display.cfm?id=189 (174 words)

	The Okinawa Slug Site
		A relatively recent, but excellent presentation and dialogue site has been initiated by Bill Rudman with the establishment of the Sea Slug Forum.
		There are numerous opisthobranch home pages appearing on the Internet on a fairly regular basis and some of these are indicated on the jump page or with the non-jump link listed below.
		Many of the identifications are tentative in nature, awaiting close examination of the specimens; the majority of these identifications have been made by Terry Gosliner of the California Academy of Sciences.
	www.rfbolland.com /okislugs (514 words)

	James in Taiwan » 2004 » September
		IMHO it was a bit pricey to enter (10 US dollars at night, 17 during the day) for the quality/size of the aquarium, but it was something different at least.
		One of the things I really liked were the sea slugs.
		If you wonder what the white stuff coming out of the slug on the coral is, they are it’s eggs.
	james.humandesigned.com /2004/09 (2386 words)

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